Sanitary waste can



1,645,100 Oct 11 1927' J. F. GEIBEL SANITARY WASTE CAN Filed April 22, 1924 fg] 7,9 I Invenal:

Patented Oct. 11, 1927.

UNITED STATES y 1,645,100 PATENT o FPIcE. i

JOHN F. GEIBEL, OF BUFFALO, NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MASTER METAL PRODUCTS, INC., OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SANITARY WASTE CAN.

Application led April 22, 1924. Serial No. 708,164.

This invention relates to a sanitary waste or garbage can of the type having a can-receiving body or container and a foot-actuated cover hinged thereto. Y

One of its objects is to provide a receptacle of this character having means for simultaneously raising the waste can proper outof itssupporting body and opening the cover. e i

Other objects of the invention are to provide an improved waste can which is simple, inexpensive and compact in construction. tand whose parts are so organized and arranged that they are not subject to breakage Yor liable to get out of order. Y

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a waste can embodying my invention, showing the parts in position with the cover closed. Figure 2 is a similarl view, partly in section, with the cover open. Figure 3 isa transverse vertical section on line 3 3, Fig. 1. Figure et is a horizontal section on line 4 4, Fig. 3.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

In the preferred embodiment of the invention shown in the drawings, the same comprises a can-body or container which is cylindrical in form and constructed of sheet metal'or otherpsuitable material.4 At its open upper end, this can-body is provided with a vertically-swinging cover 11 hinged at 12.

Contained within the can-body is a receptacle 13 in the form of a pail or bucket for the garbage, ashes or other waste-materials. The dimensions of the receptacle are such that it ts more or less loosely in the. canbody toA permit its ready insertion. and removal into and out of the same. In the lowered position of the receptacle in its body, the same is conta-ined wholly within said body, as shown in Fig. 1, with its upper end terminating immediatelyy below the underside of the cover 11. The receptacle may have a bail 14 pivoted to fold into 1t, as shown in Fig. 2. y

Carried by the can-body 10 is a combined support and ejecting device for the receptacle 13, said device serving to support the latter pro erly within the can-body. as shown in ig. 1, and to project it to the position shown in Fig. 2, which movementalso opens the cover 11. This device is preferably in the form of a horizontally disposed footactuated member or lever 15 having bearing portions 16, 16 at its ends journaled in alining openings 1i" formed' near the lower end .of the can-body. Intermediate these bearing portions and contained wit-hin the dimensional areaot said can-body is an oft'-` set portion or crank-arm 18 of substantially V-shaped form, whichis adapted to engage the underside of the receptacle 13. The bearmg port-ions 16, 16 not only serve as a fulcrum for the crankarm but constitute supports upon which the receptacle rests when in. its normal position in the can-body. As shown in Figs. 2 and 4, the actuating member is journaled on one side of the longitudinal axis ot' the can-body, so that its crank-arm 1S has t-he necessary throw to project the receptacle above the mouth of the can-body sufliciently to raise the cover for permitting the emptying of waste into said rereptacle. Located on the exterior of the can-body and forming an angular continuation of one of the bearing portions 16 is an actuating arm 19 extending in a direction opposite to the crank-arm 18 and having a foot-pedal 20 attached to its free end.

By this construction and arrangement, the cover ot' the can-body is raised through the instrumentality of the receptacle 13 which in effect forms a link between the foot-actuated member 15 and said cover.

In the'use of this device, assuming the parts to be in the position shown in Fig. 1, and it is desired to raise the cover 11, the foot-pedal 2O is depressed which projects t-he receptacle 13 above the mouth of the canbody and simultaneously swings the cover to its open position, shown in Fig. 2. U n releasing the footmedal, the receptacle and the cover drop to their initial posit-ion by gravity. the receptacle being supported upon the bearing portions 16 of the actuating member, while the cover engages the rim of the canbody. In both movements of the cover, the receptacle acts directly' to control it.

This improved waste can is sanitary and convenient in use, and the cover-operating device is exceedingly simple in construction, reliable in act-ion and comprises a minimum number of parts, correspondingly reducing the cost of manufacture.

I claim as my invention:

l. A. deviceY ot` the character described, comprising a can-body adapted to receive and support a waste receptacle, a cover for lou ' to the top of said can-body, and a combined rigid support and manuall -operated ejecting device for said receptacly the latter controlling the opening and closing movements of said cover.

3. -A device of the character described, comprising a can-body adapted to receive a Waste receptacle therein, a cover for said receptacle hinged to the top of said can-body, and a foot-actuated thrust member mounted on said can-body said member including a part for direct engagement with said receptacle for projecting it above the canbody and a part for manually supporting the receptacle in its lowered position, said receptacle controlling the opening and closing movements of said cover.

4. A device of the character decribed, comprising a can-body adapted to receive a waste receptacle therein, a cover for said receptacle hinged to the top of said canbody, and a foot-actuated Vmember fulcrumed on said can-'body and having an offset portion arranged for engagement with .said receptacle for projecting it out of the can-bod)- to raise said cover.

5. A device of the character described, comprising a can-body adapted to receive a waste receptacle therein, a cover for said receptacle hinged to the top of said canbody, and a foot-actuated member journaled aty its ends near the lower end of said cani body and having a crank-arm arranged to engage the underside of said receptacle for pro'ecting it out of the can-body to raise sai cover.

6. A device of the character described, comprising a can-body adapted to receive a Waste rece tacle therein, a cover for said receptacle in ed to the top' of said canbody, and a ot-actuated member having bearing portions at its ends journaled in said can-body near the lower end thereof and a. substantially V-shaped crank-arm intermediate its ends arranged to engage the underside of said receptacle, the bearing portions of said foot-actuated member constituting Isupports for said receptacle.

7. A device of the character described, comprising a can-body adapted to receive a Waste receptacle therein, a cover for said receptacle hinged t-o the top of said canbody,l and a foot-actuated member having bearing portions at its ends journaled in said can-body on one side of the longitudinal axis thereof and a substantially V-shaped crank-arm intermediate its ends for engagement with the underside of said receptacle,

one of said bearing portions terminating on the exterior of the can-body in an actuating arm extending in a direction opposite to that of said crank-arm.

8. A device of the character described, comprisinga can-body, a cover hinged to the top of said can-body, an actuating lever fulcrumed at the lower end of the can-bodv and having a crank-arm contained within the dimensional area thereof, and a receptacle contained in the can-body and constituting a link between sald cover and said crank-arm.

JOHN F. GEDBEL. 

